I know I have long since finished writing CANDY'S CHILDREN, but this book by Karl Sabbagh ties up a lot of the implicit material in my book, that comes from personal and family memories. It pastes in the reality background to my story and confirms to me (and I hope to my readers) that I have got that background right. It certainly confirms the perfidy of politicians and the greed of certain national leaders, and although it is really about what happened fifty years ago and more, I don't think these people who purport to lead us have changed very much. Just change the names and the story is the same again and again.
Friday 13 November 2009
PALESTINE: A PERSONAL HISTORY by Karl Sabbagh
I know I have long since finished writing CANDY'S CHILDREN, but this book by Karl Sabbagh ties up a lot of the implicit material in my book, that comes from personal and family memories. It pastes in the reality background to my story and confirms to me (and I hope to my readers) that I have got that background right. It certainly confirms the perfidy of politicians and the greed of certain national leaders, and although it is really about what happened fifty years ago and more, I don't think these people who purport to lead us have changed very much. Just change the names and the story is the same again and again.
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